The Accad & Koka Report, a medical and healthcare policy podcast, tackles "Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmire." The conversation largely attacks our proposal to amend the UDDA.
Their guests are Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD and D. Alan Shewmon, MD. They discuss troubling development on the legal treatment of brain death.
Dr. Nguyen was previously an academic hematopathologist and is currently a Catholic moral theologian and bioethicist. She has authored books and articles both in medicine and in moral theology/bioethics and authored a 600-page monograph that takes a critical look at brain death from a variety of perspectives.
Dr. Shewmon is Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Neurology at UCLA. His work, comprising decades of well-documented clinical observations and reflections, is now known as “Shewmon’s challenge,” a compelling rebuke to the principal arguments put forth to defend the concept of brain death.
The two guests (Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD and D. Alan Shewmon, MD) are not attacking Professor Pope and colleagues’ proposed revision of the US legal definition of death in the UDDA, they are pointing to the general public solid robust evidence from medical sciences that invalidate such proposed arbitrary revision of " human death" which can harm persons. Professor Pope and colleagues’ believe the legal revision should endorse the standard developed by the American Academy of Neurology which has been shown to result in erroneous declaration of death. The same standard now is promoted and endorsed by professional societies in “The World Brain Death Project” with common interests to promote global human organ transplantation. “The World Brain Death Project” is effectively trying to legitimize globally the use of severely neurologically disabled persons as sources of organs.
ReplyDeleteThe two guests (Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD and D. Alan Shewmon, MD) are not attacking Professor Pope and colleagues’ proposed revision of the US legal definition of death in the UDDA, they are pointing to the general public solid robust evidence from medical sciences that invalidate such proposed arbitrary revision of " human death" which can harm persons. Professor Pope and colleagues’ believe the legal revision should endorse the standard developed by the American Academy of Neurology which has been shown to result in erroneous declaration of death. The same standard now is promoted and endorsed by professional societies in “The World Brain Death Project” with common interests to promote global human organ transplantation. “The World Brain Death Project” is effectively trying to legitimize globally the use of severely neurologically disabled persons as sources of organs.
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